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Remove outdated info about custom skins 

It has been marked outdated for several years. Since it appears on the repo home
page, it makes the project feel unmaintained.

Signed-off-by: J. Ryan Stinnett <jryans@gmail.com>
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for now. for now.
OUTDATED: To Create Your Own Skin
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**This is ALL LIES currently, and needs to be updated**
Skins are modules are exported from such a package in the `lib` directory.
`lib/skins` contains one directory per-skin, named after the skin, and the
`modules` directory contains modules as their javascript files.
A basic skin is provided in the matrix-react-skin package. This also contains
a minimal application that instantiates the basic skin making a working matrix
client.
You can use matrix-react-sdk directly, but to do this you would have to provide
'views' for each UI component. To get started quickly, use matrix-react-skin.
To actually change the look of a skin, you can create a base skin (which
does not use views from any other skin) or you can make a derived skin.
Note that derived skins are currently experimental: for example, the CSS
from the skins it is based on will not be automatically included.
To make a skin, create React classes for any custom components you wish to add
in a skin within `src/skins/<skin name>`. These can be based off the files in
`views` in the `matrix-react-skin` package, modifying the require() statement
appropriately.
If you make a derived skin, you only need copy the files you wish to customise.
Once you've made all your view files, you need to make a `skinfo.json`. This
contains all the metadata for a skin. This is a JSON file with, currently, a
single key, 'baseSkin'. Set this to the empty string if your skin is a base skin,
or for a derived skin, set it to the path of your base skin's skinfo.json file, as
you would use in a require call.
Now you have the basis of a skin, you need to generate a skindex.json file. The
`reskindex.js` tool in matrix-react-sdk does this for you. It is suggested that
you add an npm script to run this, as in matrix-react-skin.
For more specific detail on any of these steps, look at matrix-react-skin.
Alternative instructions:
* Create a new NPM project. Be sure to directly depend on react, (otherwise
you can end up with two copies of react).
* Create an index.js file that sets up react. Add require statements for
React and matrix-react-sdk. Load a skin using the 'loadSkin' method on the
SDK and call Render. This can be a skin provided by a separate package or
a skin in the same package.
* Add a way to build your project: we suggest copying the scripts block
from matrix-react-skin (which uses babel and webpack). You could use
different tools but remember that at least the skins and modules of
your project should end up in plain (ie. non ES6, non JSX) javascript in
the lib directory at the end of the build process, as well as any
packaging that you might do.
* Create an index.html file pulling in your compiled javascript and the
CSS bundle from the skin you use. For now, you'll also need to manually
import CSS from any skins that your skin inherts from.